Honeydew Farmer

I captured this little ant farming honeydew from an aphid. This symbiotic relationship played out on a plant just outside my sister’s home on a farm in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

– Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids. Ants may collect, or “milk,” honeydew directly from aphids, who in turn benefit from their presence due to their driving away predators such as lady beetles or parasitic wasps. (Wikipedia)